Against Leocrates
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Lycurgus
Lycurgus
c. 390 BCE–c. 324 BCE · Athens
Lycurgus of Athens (c. 390-c. 324 BCE) was an Athenian statesman and orator, counted among the canonical 'Ten Attic Orators.' He is best known for managing Athens' public finances and building program in the decades after the rise of Macedon, and for his austere reputation; one of his courtroom speeches, 'Against Leocrates,' survives. He should not be confused with the legendary Spartan lawgiver of the same name.
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About Athens
The intellectual capital of the Greek world, where Socrates questioned in the agora and four great schools—Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa, and Epicurus' Garden—took root within a single square mile.
In Athens at the same time
Gorgias of Leontini, Democritus, Antisthenes, Aristophanes, Lysias, Andocides
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Lycurgus’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Gorgias of Leontini, Democritus, Antisthenes, Aristophanes, Lysias, Andocides, Isocrates, Alcidamas, Xenophon, Plato, Isaeus, Diogenes of Sinope, Speusippus, Xenocrates of Chalcedon, Apollodorus son of Pasion, Heraclides Ponticus, Hyperides, Hegesippus
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Lycurgus’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.